Example sentences for: evocative

How can you use “evocative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To the north and west are the ancient sites of Ireland: Malahide Castle, the evocative hill of Tara, and the long barrows of Knowth and Newgrange.

  • This lovely former monastery has been remarkably restored to form one of Portugal’s most evocative pousadas.

  • The first, the Museo Nacional de Arte Hispano-Musulmán (Museum of Hispano-Moorish Art), displays such evocative artifacts as the throne of the Nasrids, a wooden armchair inlaid with silver and ivory, and the Alhambra Vase, which once graced the Hall of the Two Sisters.

  • The film, which purports to explore the circumstances under which a celebrated anthropologist, Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), disappeared among Rwandan gorillas and emerged two years later as a mute and wild-eyed killer of park rangers, is loaded with radical credos--ideas evocative of Kafka, deep ecology, and Dian Fossey at her most gorillaphilic.

  • Still, you’ll find vestiges of a vibrant past, including evocative castle ruins and churches with extraordinary displays of Portuguese glazed tiles.


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